Pencil and pen holder.



I No. 812,763. PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

L. MILLIRON.

PENCIL AND PEN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8, 1906.

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PENCIL AND PEN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application filed April 8, 1905. Serial No. 254,542.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LORENZO MILLIRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flandreau, in the county of Moody and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil and Pen Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a simple attaching device adapted to be secured to a garment for holding or supporting a pencil or pen upon the person.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying the invention, the pin being shown open. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device, the pin closed. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a top plan view embodying a modification of the invention.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to inthe following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Specifically describing the detailed construction of the invention, the numeral 1 indicates the shank of a pin-attaching device of a construction somewhat similar to the ordinary safety-pin, said shank 1 being coiled at one end to form a spring 2 and thence extended to form the pin 3. The end portion of the shank 1 opposite that bent to form the spring 2 is bent to form a loop 4, which constitutes a catch to receive the pin 3 after the pin has been passed through a garment in applying the holder to'the person. The catch or loop 4 is refolded, as shown at 5, the end portion of the material from which the shank 1 and catch 4 are made being extended longitudinally of the shank and bent to form a plurality of loops 6, arranged in a plane about at a right angle to a plane including the shank 1 and the pin 3. In other words, the loops 6 extend laterally from the shank and are of such a size as to readily receive a pen, (of the fountain type usually,) pencil, or like part.

It is designed that the holder comprising this invention be made of a single length of spring-wire, of which the shank l is made, the catch 4 being bent from one end of the shank, after which the wire is extended to form the loops 6, the terminal of the wire ad jacent the loops 6, which loops may be of any suitable number, being formed into an eye 7, receiving the shank and holding the looped portion of the wire in proper position relative thereto. The spring 2 and pin 3 .are likewise integral portions of the shank 1, and the construction above described is cheap and at the same time conducive to the greatest serviceability.

Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of the invention in which the outermost portions of the loops 6 are broadened, so as to form a space between the several loops which converges near the adjacent outermost portions of said loops, being contracted at this point, as shown at 8. The spaces between the several loops 6 will readily receive a pencil or pen also, and the loops having a spring action will spread apart in forcing the pens o1 pencils into the spaces between the same. The structure in Fig. 4 is substantially the same as that in the preferred forms of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A pencil and pen holding device comprising a shank having one end portion thereof bent to form a catch, the portion of the shank formed into the catch being refolded and thence extended longitudinally of the shank and formed into a lurality of article-holding loops at one side 0 the shank, the terminal of the bent end portion of the shank remote from the catch being bent into an eye receiv ing the shank at the end remote from that provided with said catch, and a pin for attaching the shank to the garment.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LORENZO MILLIRON. [L. sfl

Witnesses:

JAs. T. BIGELOW, ALBERT DEKLOTZ. 

